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Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert is a German-Ghanaian (his mother is German, his father Ghanaian) militant islamist and former rapper. He's the older brother of Lil' Deso.

Cuspert was born in 1975 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. At the end of 2010 he quit his hip-hop career and became an islamic preacher named Abou Maleeq, later Abu Talha al-Almani (Abu Talha the German). He released Naschid music in German language. German officials say that his videos and speeches contain inflammatory rhetoric that promotes violence.

Cuspert was known to be affiliated with Austrian born al-Qaeda affiliate Muhammad Mahmoud who, as of August 2012, was reported to have fled to Egypt to establish a German Salafist colony that seeks to impose Sharia law in Germany. Furthermore, it has also been reported that Cuspert, after being under observation by German authorities in Berlin, had also managed to flee to Egypt. He subsequently joined ISIL and was involved with several beheadings.